Chapter 499: Actor Selection (1)

Beijing, Lama Temple, Falun Palace. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Pei Yueyue stood in the main hall, still looking curiously at a smiling bronze Buddha statue sitting on the huge lotus platform in the middle of the hall. She had seen a Lama Temple tour brochure that she bought for a few yuan from a hawker when she first entered the main gate of Lama Temple, and knew that this Buddha statue was actually 6.1 meters high, and it was the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, Master Tsongkhapa, which was sculpted in 1924, at a cost of 200,000 silver dollars, and it took two years to complete.

As it approached five o'clock in the afternoon, the number of tourists gradually became scarce, and the time for the opening of the Lama Temple for tours was approaching. There are also a few tourists who are still sightseeing and enjoying the things in the temple, and the pilgrims are politely reminded of the time by two kind-looking monks, asking them to leave as soon as possible before closing.

Pei Yueyue was not affected in the slightest, wandering freely in the main hall, and the two monks obviously saw her, but did not come forward to remind the time.

Pei Yueyue knew why. Because Chenxing was talking to an old monk here who was old and looked at the status of a good old monk in a meditation room at the back of the side hall next to the main hall, she was just waiting for Chenxing here, not a tourist or believer who came to burn incense and worship the Buddha.

Chenxing and the monk had been in the room for a while, and Pei Yueyue waited but didn't feel bored, casually looking around. She didn't come to Beijing much, and she traveled with her parents once or twice during the summer vacation of junior high and high school, and the attraction of Lama Temple seems to be because she had just visited Jingshan Park at that time, and the family felt too tired to come. At this time, Pei Yueyue just took the opportunity to visit and make up for the regret that she went to Beijing but did not come to the Lama Temple to worship the Buddha.

After Chenxing and the old monk entered a certain meditation room to talk, Pei Yueyue ran to the Lama Gate and walked around from front to back, and at this time she returned to the Falun Hall from the Wanfu Pavilion at the back of the Lama Temple. Estimating the time, he felt that Chenxing might come out later, so Pei Yueyue didn't go far, but only walked around the Falun Palace.

After looking at the bronze Buddha statue in front of the Falun Hall for a while, Pei Yueyue went around the back of the Buddha statue and saw the red sandalwood 500 Arhat Mountain, which the manual said was made during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. This Luohan Mountain is 3.40 meters high, 3.45 meters wide and 0.30 meters thick, and is known as one of the "three unique wood carvings" of Lama Temple. It is said that there are 500 Arhats, but in fact, only 449 Arhats remain, which are made of five metals: gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin, and each Arhat is more than 10 centimeters high. When Pei Yueyue saw these five hundred Arhat Mountains for the first time just now, she was very surprised, but she didn't have time to take a closer look, she glanced at the hundreds of Arhats a few times, and none of them remembered their faces, and then hurriedly stepped towards the Wanfu Pavilion behind the Falun Palace.

At this time, walking in front of the five hundred Arhat Mountains again, Pei Yueyue couldn't help but watch carefully. The whole mountain of this Arhat Mountain is carved from rosewood, hundreds of Arhats cast with gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin are in the middle, in fact, a closer look can see that this mountain has more than ten layers from the bottom to the top, the lowest layer is at the bottom of this mountain, and the Arhats are also the most, there is a mountain trail that can go up the mountain, and you can go to the second layer when you go out of the cave. There are holes or bridges or winding paths between each layer, and the layers are clear and not rigid. The arhats coexist peacefully with the birds and beasts in this real and illusory mountain scenery, each with different expressions and postures, even the cranes, spirit monkeys, lions, tigers and other animals are lifelike and vivid. Legend has it that when Shakyamuni Buddha was alive, he often gave lectures to these 500 Buddhas. Later, these disciples sorted out what Shakyamuni preached, and it became the "Buddhist Sutra" that has been handed down to this day. Although the appearance of these arhats is different, if you look at them one by one, you can feel that they are a world of their own, and everyone laughs or cries or is stupid because they have obtained a kind of perfection that does not exist in the present world in their same world. They are in different places in the mountains, but they seem to be walking the same path everywhere. Pei Yueyue sighed at the realistic shape and exquisite carving skills of the hundreds of statues in Luohan Mountain, and at the same time thought that these people all had the same beliefs, so everyone didn't look like each other, but they all felt like each other.

Pei Yueyue came to the front of the main hall again, looked up at the bronze Buddha statue again, and looked down at the incense burner and kneeling cushion in front of the Buddha statue, thinking of the appearance of a few tourists worshipping the Buddha and making a wish just now, she couldn't help but kneel down, learn the posture of those people, fold her hands, and silently chant the words, "Please bless Chenxing to participate in this play and play the role he likes......"

The drama that Pei Yueyue said is "Xiaoxiao Changhe Cold". The reason why she and Chenxing came to Beijing this time was precisely because they received a notice from Yu Youjia, saying that the director wanted to meet Chenxing, chat, and prepare for casting. When Pei Yueyue first heard the news, she was as excited as if she was something. Gu Lian said that this time it must be Yu Youjia who recommended Chenxing in front of the director, no matter whether he succeeds or not, he needs to thank Yu Youjia well.

In fact, it is also a bit of a coincidence. Shanghai Satellite TV's "Youth Cool Flying" program team was originally scheduled to record the program this weekend, but after Gu Lian went to the TV station and heard Lan Rouzhen ask her to bring a message to Chenxing, two days later, the program team suddenly notified all the contestants and judges that the scheduled program recording date would be postponed to next week. And Gu Lian also heard some rumors from the program team, saying that two sets of plans have been prepared, and it will be officially determined which plan to adopt after the ratings of the third and fourth episodes of the program come out, and the upcoming third and fourth episodes of the program also heard that it seems that some deletions have been made on the basis of the original planning topic, and another topic has been added temporarily, as for what it is, it is not clear. Gu Lian was very annoyed when she couldn't hear anything at first, but after some faint rumors came out, she didn't show anything, and she no longer complained to Pei Yueyue, and she was very calm on the surface.

Because of the delay in the recording of this program on Shanghai TV, the schedules of the three major judges must be changed, including Tianjiao. It is impossible for the agent Sister Ming to let Tianjiao stay for a week and do nothing, Yu Youjia automatically took over the task of informing Tianjiao to start work, and called Chenxing's home directly at night, and talked to Tianjiao on the phone and asked him to hurry back to Beijing to prepare for the recording of the new album, and strive to record several songs a week, and at the same time let Chenxing go to Beijing with Tianjiao if he is free. Chenxing naturally had no reason to refuse.

Pei Yueyue originally wanted to drag Gu Lian with her, how can I say that Gu Lian can be regarded as Chenxing's agent, and it is better to have her in this kind of thing when talking about film appointments. But Gu Lian doesn't seem to be very positive. She called Yu Youjia back, and after inquiring about the situation, she said that she would not accompany Chenxing and Pei Yueyue to Beijing. Because Yu Youjia's meaning is also unnecessary, this is just a meeting between the director and the actor, and there is no need for a third party to intervene, if it is time to formally talk about the salary of the film, then the agent needs to come forward to negotiate. In other words, this film contract is still in the stage of fighting, and the director's method is to let the actor use his performance in front of him to fight for it, and it is better to go with the flow. At the same time, with Yu Youjia's recommendation, this is already a very favorable condition. In addition, Gu Lian's side is not very open at the moment, the rumors on the program team need her to keep an eye on every day, and Li Chunnian also has a new drama appointment that requires her to take the initiative to contact the producer from time to time. If you leave Xia Yi and Li Chunnian behind and go to Beijing, you will have to be talked about by that Sister S again. Therefore, Pei Yueyue no longer insisted on letting Gu Lian accompany her, although she still felt very sorry in her heart.

Pei Yueyue arrived in Beijing with Chenxing and Tianjiao yesterday evening, and Yu Youjia personally drove a car to pick them up and had dinner together. During the meal, Yu Youjia told them about some progress of the "Xiaoxiao Long River Cold" project.

Huayue's artist agency department, in fact, is mainly Sister Ming's team, which thinks that the setting of the young protagonist of this TV series is very consistent with Tianjiao, and hopes to join this project to become the male number one candidate for the show. Huayue's artist training itself has its own plans and steps, and the reason for this idea proposed by Sister Ming in Tianjiao's personal career planning is obvious, Tianjiao's movie has just ended, and it is scheduled to be released during Valentine's Day next year at the earliest, and the album also hopes to match the movie screening period as much as possible. Before Tianjiao's movies and records came out, in addition to participating in Shanghai Satellite TV's programs and some commercial performance sponsorship activities, Sister Ming hoped that Tianjiao could use this period to shoot a TV. I have been in contact with several urban idol dramas before, Tianjiao doesn't like that kind of script, and Sister Ming also feels that if you make some idol dramas with no connotation after having a light comedy movie, it is easy to make Tianjiao's positioning single, which is not conducive to his long-term development, and those idol dramas that have been contacted are not produced by Huayue, and whether the distribution is effective cannot be guaranteed. And Huayue's recent preparations for filming have all been decided, and the male and female protagonists are basically Huayue's artists, only the actors of the crew of "Xiaoxiao Changhe Leng" have not yet been decided, Sister Ming turned over the script and felt that the role of the male one was more suitable for Tianjiao's own image, and martial arts dramas were more suitable for Xiaosheng than romance dramas, so there was this proposal.

Sister Ming's plan was submitted, and whether it could be implemented required several departments to jointly hold a meeting, naturally including the crew preparers of "Xiaoxiao Long River Cold". As the largest investor of the play, although Huayue has the final decision on the selection of actors, it must also consider the opinions of the crew professionals. If this plan is agreed by several departments within Huayue and Yu Zhicheng also supports it, then Tianjiao's appointment as the male number one in the show will be certain. Judging from the current trend of the company, Tianjiao has no major obstruction opinions when he is the first man.

Tianjiao herself has no idea about this kind of proposal, and the reason "Yu Youjia takes the title of producer of this show" alone is enough for Tianjiao to accept this drama obediently.

Pei Yueyue didn't say anything at that time, she only ate silently in her mouth, but she was very envious in her heart, and there was a slight injustice.

Chenxing likes this script so much, how many times he has studied it over and over again, it is very difficult to play a male number two; Tianjiao hasn't even read the script, and he can get a male number one without much effort.

The world is so unfair.